Pamela Rauseo, 37, performs CPR on her nephew on the side of the road (Image: MCT /Landov / Barcroft Media)

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A DISTRESSED aunt frantically tries to revive her lifeless baby nephew by the roadside.

These dramatic pictures show how Pamela Rauseo saved five-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz after he stopped breathing in the back of her car.

Fellow motorists, including a police officer, rushed to help her as traffic on one of the busiests motorways in the US ground to a halt.

Photographer Al Diaz, who was driving behind Pamela on the Dolphin Expressway in Miami on Thursday afternoon, said: “She jumped out of the car in front of me and screamed that the baby couldn’t breathe.”

Before taking the pictures, Al ran through the traffic searching for help. He found police officer Amauris Bastidas, who sprinted to the scene.

Bastidas took over CPR duties from Lucila Godoy, 34, another motorist who had rushed to Pamela’s side to help resuscitate Sebastian.

He said: “I lifted him up in the air and moved him up and down. He started breathing and crying.”

However, Sebastian, who was born prematurely and has respiratory issues, started slipping into unconsciousness again.

Miami Fire Rescue, who arrived on the scene within minutes, rushed the little boy to hospital, where he was in a stable condition yesterday.

Interior designer Pamela, 37, who was looking after Sebastian for her sister Paola, said she had been in a panic, thinking she could not let anything happen to her nephew.